The need of people, who began to form the artificial environment while shaping nature, tounderstand, shape, and interact with the environment has increased with the process of visualperception-interpretation-definition. Objective information perceived from the environmentcreates different effects on people. Mental schemas shared by cultural group members lead tothe emergence of visible patterns and orders in culture. This situation occasionally causesintersections in the visual elements, which common meanings are attributed to, in the perceptualcognition of the individuals using the physical environment. The image taking shape as a resultof intersections is a formation of momentary perceptions, past experiences, and memories.From this point of view, the perception of images is not merely visual; it has sociological andhistorical aspects that it represents. In this context, the city of Adana, which has a multiculturalhistory of 8000 years, hosts a wide variety of elements in terms of architectural imagery. In thestudy, the historical and new architectural images on the banks of the Seyhan River wereinterpreted by the public. In line with this objective, the data obtained by using photo archives,the statistical results obtained from surveys were analyzed in order to question the architecturalimage components. Within this framework, with the survey conducted of 60 people, thefollowings were questioned and answers were sought for the city users:- Primary images of the city,- The reasons that have created the images, in other words, the values that have been effectivein transforming these buildings into images,- The reasons for the differentiation of the selected historical and new images in their imageryvalues. The results of the statistical analyses revealed that the urban element/building that hasnot been utilized actively could not establish the relationship of belonging with urbanites,therefore, the building's imaginative effect has been weakened, and particularly the historicalbuildings that make up their traces in urban memory have been the most influential factors. Inthis context, the present study and similar studies in order to protect on retaining urbanites'relationship with the residential areas are considered valuable in terms of both shedding lighton future studies and using them as data in the practices.